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I have an external hard drive that I am having trouble with in Catalina.
The drive mounts properly but Spotlight will not search it.
The drive formatted as Mac OS Extended (Journaled) and is set up to potentially be a boot drive.
But. I just want to mount the drive and search it. Spotlight will not search it.
Is there an issue with Mac OS Extended (Journaled) format at Catalina? Or something I am not thinking about?
It is kind of driving me crazy. Thanks!
For the record, the problem seems to have been with the Mac OS Extended (Journaled) format. I spoke to two Apple Geniuses (head supervisors). No one could explain why this was happening. But I decided to wipe the drive, reformat the disk, and put everything back on it.
